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COAPSTICK, A. H.
COCHRAN, Albert
COCHRAN, Harrison W.
COHEE, Addison F.
COHEE, Hezekiah M.
COHEE, S. C.
COHEE, Samuel C.
COIN, Mrs. Frances
COLLINS, James W.
COMBS, John E.
COMBS, Joseph
COMBS, William B. (2)
COOK, John D.
COOPER, Wilson T. M.D.
COSNER, Nelson W.
COULTER, David Alexander
COULTER, James W.
COVELY, Francis G.
COX, Lincoln
COX, Timothy B. , M. D.
CRULL, William J.
CRULL, W. J., Jr.
CRUM, John H.
CUE, I. M.
CUNNINGHAM, Alexander G.
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COAPSTICK, A. H.
     In the person of the late A. H. Coapstick, for many years a well
     known and progressive agriculturist of Warren township, Clinton
     county, we have a sample of worthy race of people to whom the
     country is largely indebted for its development and progress.
     He was not a showy man, but simply a plain, industrious tiller
     of the soil, who worked hard to get a start in the world,
     provided well for his family, did his duty to his fellow man and
     made a good neighbor and citizens.  To such as he Indiana owes
     much.  Here and there scattered over the state in every county,
     they toiled and worker, cleared, grubbed and ditched, fought the
     hindrances of nature in the way of swamps and dense forests,
     gradually making headway, until in time we see beautiful and
     highly cultivated farms as the result of their arduous labors.
     Such were the farmers of the generation that has passed.  They
     did not figure in public life, most of them.  Their names were
     seldom mentioned in the papers, for they lived quiet,
     unpretentious lives, but it was their work and self-sacrifice
     that was gradually building up to the state, adding to its
     wealth and beauty, until it became one of the finest
     agricultural regions in the world.  Mr. Coapstick was a
     public-spirited man in all that the term implies, was ever
     interested in movements tending to promote the general welfare
     and withheld his support from the movement for the good of the
     locality as long honored by his residence.  His personal
     relations with his fellow men were ever mutually pleasant and
     agreeable, and he was highly regarded by all, having been
     obliging and straightforward in all the relations of life.
     Mr. Coapstick was born in Carroll county, Indiana, April 20,
     1849.  He was a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (CONCANNON)
     COAPSTICK.  The father died when the subject of this memoir was
     nine months old, and soon thereafter the mother moved with her
     children to Owen township, Clinton county, where our subject
     lived on a farm until he was fourteen years old, then started
     out for himself, having had but little chance to secure an
     education.  He began life as a farmer which vocation he followed
     all his life with more than ordinary success,  accumulating one
     of the most desirable farms in Warren township, on which he
     built a substantial and attractive home in 1851.
     Mr. Coapstick was married November 7, 1871 to Louisa YOUNG, who
     was born, February 18, 1851 in Clinton county, Indiana.  She is
     a daughter of Dr. R. O. and Margaret N. (ROBISON) YOUNG.  Dr.
     Young was a son of Robert and Jane (OGLE) YOUNG, both natives of
     Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.  Their family consisted of ten
     children, Dr. R. O. Young having been the fifth son and sixth
     child.  Robert Young spent his early life in Pennsylvania from
     which state he came to Ohio in 1801, and established the future
     home of the family.  He was a tailor by trade.
     Dr. Young attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, and
     followed the medical profession all his active life.  He was
     very successful and prominent among the pioneers.  He came to
     Clinton county in 1835.  He and Margaret N. Robison were married
     on March 21, 1848.  She was a daughter of Andrew ROBISON.  To
     Dr. Young and wife five children were born, two of whom are
     still living, namely: Robert, born February 9, 1850, married
     Sarah E. TAYLOR, who died in April , 1885; Louisa, now the wife
     of Owen E. BEARD, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this
     volume: Mary, born June 15, 1853, died June 11, 1886; Hulda,
     born May 21, 1858 (deceased), and Milton, born January 20, 1863
     died April 1, 1863.  The death of the mother of the above named
     children occurred on March 17, 1863, and Dr. Young later married
     Susanna COMPTON, on November 1, 1864.  Her death occurred on
     March 15, 1908.  Dr. Young has also been deceased some time.
     To A. H. Coapstick and wife four children were born, all now
     deceased, namely: Ida M., John and two who died in infancy.
     Mr. Coapstick was a Democrat politically, a member of the
     Presbyterian church, and a member of the Free and Accepted
     Masons Lodge No. 304 at Middlefork.  He carried the sublime
     precepts taught by his lodge and his church into his every-day
     life and was therefore a highly esteemed and influential man and
     one of our best citizens, and when he was summoned to his
     eternal reward on July 1, 1895, he was greatly missed from the
     township and county of his residence.
Source: Pages 643-645 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COCHRAN, Albert
     It is fitting that the career of Albert Cochran, as
     representative of Clinton county's argicultural (sic) men,
     should find ample space in this volume for a detailed account.
     He has been a successful mail in his chosen vocation, and his
     prosperity has been the logical consequence of straight and
     honest business methods, He has kept in touch with the times,
     has not hesitated to adopt new and labor-saving devices for the
     cultivation of his crops, and he bears a well-earned reputation
     for progressiveness in the community by reason of this spirit.
     Mr. Cochran was born on Washington's birthday, in the year of
     1850, and was the son of Nathaniel and Harriet (JONES) COCHRAN,
     the father being a native of Marion county, Indiana, and the
     mother of West Virginia. When our subject was two years of age
     his father died with typhoid fever, the mother died in Howard
     county in 1893, at the age of seventy-two years.  The father was
     a farmer all of his life and was one of nine children.  The
     mother was the oldest of a large family of thirteen children.
     Our subject's grandfather on his father's side was one of the
     earliest settlers in the Hoosier state.  The grandfather on his
     mother's side came from Wales, settled in West Virginia at an
     early day, and died in Madison county, Indiana.
     Our subject received his early education in a log cabin school
     that was built upon his grandfather's farm.  He was prevented
     from attending regularly, for as soon as he was able he was
     compelled to aid his mother, as he was the oldest of six
     children. When he was half way through his teens he served a
     two-year apprenticeship in the wagon-maker's trade, receiving
     his board and clothes as a compensation.  In 1868 he went into
     the wagon-making business for himself at Marklelville, Madison
     county, Indiana, and remained there for a long period of twenty
     years.  He also did carpenter work for seven years, making a
     success of it.  In the spring of 1885 he came to Clinton county,
     and took up farming, which he has followed ever since.  For four
     years he farmed west of Russiaville, for two years west of
     Forest, and for thirteen years one mile south of present farm.
     Where he is at present located he owns sixty-two acres of
     excellent land, and raises corn, oats, wheat and hogs.
     Politically, Mr. Cochran is a Republican, but has never been a
     seeker of public office, although he served for six years on the
     advisory board of Center township.  Fraternally, he belongs to
     the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  He attends no church
     regularly.
     On October 7, 1874 Mr. Cochran was married to Martha E. Cook,
     the daughter of Joel and Susan (ROGERS) COOK, farmers of Hancock
     county.  Her mother was a native of North Carolina and her
     father came from the Old Dominion.  She was one of fifteen
     children, eleven of whom are living.  Seven children have been
     born to Mr. and Mrs. Cochran: Charles Nathaniel (deceased),
     Maurice Edgar, farmer and school teacher of this county, has
     three children, Mural F.,  Lloyd and Morris G.; Austin, a
     Clinton county farmer, has one child, Mildred; Mrs. Arminta
     COHEE, wife of the city clerk of Frankfort, has one child,
     Dorothy E. ; Mrs. Ada RICHARDS, has one child, William A.; and
     Arthur, a Clinton county farmer, has one child, Opal Pauline.
Source: Pages 890 & 891 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COCHRAN, Harrison W.
     Fairly good crops may be produced in any section of Indiana when
     the season is particularly favorable to that section even though
     the best methods of crop production are not followed, but it is
     when unseasonable conditions prevail that results of good
     farming are most apparent.  The beneficial results of good farm
     management are very apparent on the fine farm of Harrison W.
     Cochran, in Forest township, Clinton county.  He has adopted the
     modern system of permanent agriculture, treats his soil with
     proper fertilizers, natural and commercial, carefulIy rotates
     his crops of corn, oats, wheat and clover, takes care of his
     orchard, has time to look after his garden and never neglects
     his chicken yard and barn yard, no small part of his annual
     income being derived from the judicious handling of live stock.
     Mr. Cochran was born March 10, 1861 in Warren township, Clinton
     county, Ind.  He is a son of Aaron M. and Adeline (WALTERS)
     COCHRAN.  The father was born January 8, 1818 in Switzerland
     county, Ind., where he was reared and married to Laura MORRISON,
     also a native of that county.  Of this union four children were
     born: Merietta (deceased), who married George TAPP;  Lucy A.
     (deceased), was married to Frank SIMS; John (deceased) ; and
     Sarah Frances married to J. W. GUTHRIDGE.
     After the death of his first wife, Aaron COCHRAN, in the early
     fifties, moved from Switzerland county to Clinton county,
     locating in what is now known as Forest township, and in August,
     1856, he married Adeline Walters, who was born in Pennsylvania,
     December 23, 1832.  She was a daughter of Gillian and Elizabeth
     (KANABLE) WALTERS.  Mr. Walters was born in Somerset county,
     Penn., June 23, 1805.  Grandmother Walters was born March 10,
     I810, also in the above named county. They were married on March
     29, 1829.  Mr. Walters was well educated for his day.  In 1844
     he, with his parents, crossed the mountains in "prairie
     schooners" to Clinton county, and here purchased wild land which
     they cleared and developed into a good farm on which a sturdy
     bunch of children were reared.  The family of Gillian Walters
     consisted of twelve children : Harrison, born December 8, 1829,
     a soldier in the Civil war, died when in his eighty-second year:
     Jacob, born January 27, 1831, died in 1908; Adeline, wife of
     Aaron M. Cochran; Catherine, born September 26, 1834, died
     November, 1908, Levi, born July 3, I836, a soldier in the Union
     army, died while in the service, on May 6, 1864, at the great
     battle of the Wilderness: Rebecca, born February 8, 1838, died
     March 17, I903; John, born December 20, 1840, now living in
     Ohio: Samuel, born June 16, 1843, now living at Frankfort.
     Ind.: Oliver, born December 8, I845, died January 1, 1908:
     Lucinda, born April 21, 1848, died March 30, 1884; Madison, born
     May 21, 1852, died December 30, 1879: and Minerva, died in
     infancy.
      Grandfather Walters made his home in this locality and died
      here September 30, 1875.  Grandmother Walters died September 9,
      1904.  The mother of the subject of this sketch was twice
      married, first, to Josiah BAKER, who was born in Pennsylvania,
      and whose death occurred in Clinton county after which Mrs.
      Baker married Mr. Cochran, who spent his life engaged in
      agricultural pursuits.  His family consisted of five children
      by his second wife: William, born April 6, 1856, married  to
      Mary AUBLE, now living in Forest township; Munroe, born August
      4, I857, died August 20, 1909, married to Alice McFARLAND;
      Harrison W., subject of this review; Cynthia, born December 2,
      1866, married to Andrew EIKENBERRY; India, born January 4,
      1871, married to Charles BLAIR,  with the last named daughter
      the mother of these children is making her home.  The death of
      Aaron M. Cochran occurred on June 30, 1886.  He was a member of
      the Methodist Episcopal church, and politically he was a
      Republican.  He was township assessor for several years and was
      an influential man in his community.
      Harrison W. Cochran grew to manhood on the home farm, and
      received a good education in the common schools of his native
      county.  On December 11, 1902 he married Lydia BURNS, daughter
      of Joseph I. BURNS, a complete sketch of whom appears on
      another page of this work.  Here Mrs. Cochran grew to
      womanhood, received a public school education, and for several
      years taught school successfully. Mr. And Mrs. Cochran have had
      no children.
      Mr. Cochran has followed general farming and stock raising
      since a boy. He owns over eighty acres of good land in Forest
      township, all tillable but about six acres, which is in
      pasture. The place is properly tiled and fenced and has two
      barns and a good dwelling. Mr. Cochran is at present living in
      the village of Forest, where he has a fine, well furnished two
      story dwelling and here he also owns seven valuable lots. He
      raises Jersey cows, Duroc hogs and a general breed of horses.
      He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Masons, is a
      Republican and a Methodist.
Source: Pages 821 - 823. History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COHEE, Addison F.
     Life is pleasant to live when we know how to make the most of
     it.  Some people start on their careers as if they had weights
     on their souls, or were afraid to make the necessary effort to
     live up to a high standard.  Others, by not making a proper
     study of the conditions of existence, or by not having the best
     of all trainers, good parents, are side-tracked at the outset
     and never seem thereafter to be able to get back again on the
     main track.  Much depends on the start, just as it does in a
     race.  The horse that gets the best start, all other things
     being equal, will almost invariably win the race.  So in the
     race of life; if you are properly started with suitable
     grooming, such as good educational and home training, you will
     lead in the race in after years and enjoy your existence.  Such
     home influence were thrown around Addison Frederick Cohee, well
     known citizen of Frankfort, Clinton county.  Both father and
     mother were always known to be people of sound principles and
     exemplary habits, and at their deaths, many years ago, there was
     no word of reproach spoken by anyone, and they left a name
     revered by all their many friends.
     Mr. Cohee is the scion of one of our earliest pioneer families,
     his grandfather having settled in wilds of this locality over
     eighty years ago.  He was born in Michigan township, Clinton
     county, October 16, 1875, and is a son of William A. and Katie
     E. (CLINE) COHEE.
     Benjamin COHEE, the paternal grandfather, was born in the state
     of Delaware, September 10, 1788.  He was a son of Benjamin and
     Rachael (DILL) COHEE.  The family came to Butler county, Ohio,
     in an early day and from there the grandfather came to Clinton
     county, Indiana, in 1830 and settled four miles northwest of
     Frankfort, when this county was covered with dense woods, in
     which only a spot here and there had been cleared.  Here
     Benjamin Cohee worked hard and prospered, owning eventually a
     good farm here on January 7, 1863.  He married Rebecca WILSON
     January 4, 1821.  She was born in Delaware, January 9, 1803, and
     her death occurred on March 4, 1868.  William A. Cohee, our
     subject's father, was born June 7, 1853, in Jackson township,
     Clinton county, and here he grew to manhood and devoted his life
     to farming.  He and Kate E. Cline were married December 24,
     1874.  His death occurred August 17, 1878, when still a young
     man.  His widow survived until in February, 1895.  Politically,
     he was a Republican, and he belonged to the Methodist church.
     Addison F. Cohee grew to manhood in his native county, and he
     received a common school education.  He began life for himself
     by working for the Clover Leaf Railroad four years, then he
     worked for the Indiana & Illinois Light Company, and the City
     lighting plant at Frankfort, and during the past ten years he
     has filled the position of wire chief for the Central Union
     Telegraph Company, discharging his duties in an eminently
     satisfactory manner, as might be surmised by his long retention.
     He is an expert in this line of work and is careful and
     painstaking.
     Politically, Mr. Cohee is a Republican, but has never been
     active in public affairs.
     On April 4, 1900, Mr. Cohee was married to Jessie GHERE, a
     daughter of Jacob T. and Anna GHERE, a highly respected family
     of Jackson township, Clinton county, where Mrs. Cohee grew to
     womanhood and was educated.
     Mr. Cohee has a beautiful and tastily furnished home in East
     Walnut street, Frankfort, and he also owns a valuable and highly
     productive farm of two hundred and forty acres in Kirklin
     township.
Source: Pages 795-796   History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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HEZEKIAH M. COHEE, a progressive and successful young farmer of
Michigan township, Clinton county, Ind., was born in boone county,
Ind., April 21, 1860, the son of Andrew and Amelia (IRWIN) COHEE, who
were early settllers of boone county. the great-grandfather Benjamin
Cohee, the progenitor of the Cohee kindred of this county,came to
America in early manhood and settled in the state of Delaware, where
he married and reared a large family. Benjamin Cohee, the grandfather
of our subject, was one of the family and was born in the state of
Delaware September 10, 1788. He grew to manhood's estate in his
native county and there married Miss Nancy HOLLAND, and sometime
thereafter Mr. Cohee removed to Butler county, Ohio. By this marriage
three sons were born, viz: Vincent D., Jonathan, and Henry H.   Mrs.
Nancy Cohee died while the children were yet small and Mr. Cohee
married Miss. Rebecca WILSON, and, September 30, 1830, moved to
Clinton county, Ind., where he settled on 240 acres of land that he
entered in 1828. They became the parents of eight children, four sons
and four daughters, viz: Andrew, Wilson, James L., Hezekiah, Marv A.,
Rachel C., Hattie J., and Eliza C. Grandfather Benjaniin Cohee died
January 7, 1863, and his wife Rebecca, died March 4, 1868. Andrew
Cohee, the father of our subject, being, the eldest son born to
Benjamin and Rebecca Cohee, dates his birth from March 14, 1823, in
Butler county, Ohio, and, while yet a small boy, came with his
parents to Indiana, where he grew to manhood, assisting his father in
forging a home out of the wilderness. March 2, 1847, he married Miss
Amelia IRWIN, who was born in Ohio, November 27, 1828,. This marriage
took place near Eagle Village, in Boone county, Ind., and has been
blessed by the birth of six children, three sons and three daughters,
viz: Sarah E., born September 19, 1850; David D., born October 1853;
Rebecca J., born October 30, 1856; Hezekiah M., born April 21, 1860;
John A., born December 24, 1866; and Ella, born June 4, 1869.    Mr.
Cohee is one of the substantial and well-to-do farmers of Boone
county, and, in 1854, located on his present farm, three and one-half
miles north of Lebanon, where he has resided ever since. He and wife
have been worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church upward of
fifty years, and are highly respected by all who know them.
     Hezekiah M. Cohee grew to manhood in his native county and
     became quite well educated, and is still a great student and
     reader of current literature. January 1, 1881, he married
     Margaret Wharry, daughter of James and Julia A. (PRICE) WHARRY.
     To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Cohee have been born the following
     children: Cecil M., born December 4, 1882; Leslie W., born June
     29, 1885, deceased; Clifton, born April 9, 1887; Leah I., born
     September 20, 1890, and Paul, born October 8, 1894. Mr. Cohee
     owns a good farm of 160 acres, of which, Mrs. Cohee inherited
     thirty-six acres from her father's estate. This is now well
     improved with a fine house and barn and is furnished with all
     modern improvements. In politics, Mr. Cohee is strongly
     republican. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cohee are members of the Methodist
     church, of which he is superintendent of the Sunday-school. Mr.
     Cohee is a member of Herman lodge, No. 184, F. & A. M. He is
     heartily in favor of our school system, is a liberal supporter
     of the church, and is public-spirited and generally progressive.
Source: Pages 622 -623. A Portrait And Biographical Record of Boone
and Clinton Counties, Ind., ... Containing Biographical Sketches of
Many Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies
and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, and
Biographies of the Governors of Indiana. Published 1895 by A.W. Bowen
& Co. in Chicago.
Claybaugh. Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis,
Indiana
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S. C. COHEE, a member of one of the oldest and most respectable
families of Clinton county, Ind., was born in the city of Frankfort,
August 11, 1858, and is one of a family of three sons and three
daughters born to Ezekiel and Lydia (MICHAELS) COHEE , natives of
Prebel county, Ohio. Samuel Cohee, father of Ezekiel, was born in
1802, was the father of five sons and four daughters, and died in
Frankfort  February 22, 1892, his wife having preceded him to the
grave in 1880. The latter was a daughter of Fred MICHAELS, one of the
pioneers of Clinton county.
    S. C. Cohee, now the leading liveryman of Frankfort, has
    supported himself since he was twelve years of age, but until ten
    years old he lived on a farm. His first effort at self-support
    was at teaming; he was then employed in a feed store and next
    engaged in draying. June 8, 1888, with a partner, he started his
    present livery barn, but two-and-a-half years later became sole
    proprietor, and by his affability rectitude and strict attention
    to the wants of patrons, has met with more than ordinary success.
    In 1875, Mr. Cohee married Miss Ida Bell WILSON of Kempton Ind.,
    and this happy union has been blessed with three children, named
    Ethel, Clair, and Lela. Mr. Cohee is a member of the Improved
    Order of Red Men, and, being a native of the county and city and
    a descendant of one of the pioneer families, stands socially in a
    very high position.
Source: Pages 623 - 624. A Portrait And Biographical Record of Boone
and Clinton Counties, Ind., ... Containing Biographical Sketches of
Many Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies
and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, and
Biographies of the Governors of Indiana. Published 1895 by A.W. Bowen
& Co. in Chicago.
Claybaugh. Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis,
Indiana
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COHEE, Samuel C.
     The rewards of industry and patient application to a single task
     are the same, no matter what the occupation, whether it is
     laboring among a crowd of ill-paid foreigners or occupying the
     highest chair in the land.  Perseverance, integrity, ambition,
     and sociability are qualities that go to make the American man
     par excellence, and the subject of this sketch is the fortunate
     possessor of these qualities.  Engaged in a business in which
     opportunities are afforded to cultivate friends, Samuel C. Cohee
     has never failed to add every day to his list.  His affability
     and his genial attitude toward the affairs of the life make
     everyone associated with him more optimistic, and in this day
     and age such an influence is profoundly needed.
     Mr. Cohee was born August 11, 1858, in Frankfort, Indiana, the
     son of Ezekiel and LYDIA (MICHAELS) COHEE.  His father was a
     native of Preble county, Ohio, and came to Clinton county in
     early manhood to follow the trade of farming.  Mrs. Cohee was a
     daughter of Frederich MICHAELS, one of the earliest pioneers of
     this county.  She died in 1880, leaving six children to mourn
     her loss.
     Samuel Cohee lived upon the farm of his birth until he was ten
     years old, and then, at that tender age, was forced to begin
     supporting himself.  It was work or starve with the young lad,
     and he worked and worked hard.  He began teaming, then worked in
     a feed store, and finally took up draying.  In 1888 he had
     accumulated enough of the world's goods to start a livery all of
     his own.  Accordingly he did so, and today his livery is one of
     the best and most completely equipped in the county.
     In 1873 Mr. Cohee was married to Ida Bell WILSON, of Kempton,
     Indiana, and to them there have been born three children.
     Politically, Mr. Cohee claims affiliation with the Democratic
     party, and has always used his best efforts in their behalf.
     Fraternally, he belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men.
Source: Pages 572-573   History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COIN, Mrs. Frances
     This estimable lady is deserving of much credit for what she has
     accomplished in the face of obstacles and discouragements that
     would have thwarted the purposes of others of less sterling
     fibre, and she has shown herself to be capable of managing
     successfully a large and valuable farm, being the fortunate
     owner of The Oakland, one of the best stock and grain farms in
     Perry township, Clinton county, on which stands one of our most
     attractive rural homes  She is the possessor of many commendable
     attributes of head and heart and has long been a favorite with a
     wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
     Martin COIN, deceased husband of Mrs. Frances Coin, of this
     review, was one of the prominent agriculturists and stock men of
     this county.  He was born in Cass county, Indiana, May 1, 1854,
     and his death occurred on November 17, 1907.  He came of a
     worthy old family, noted alike for their industry and honesty.
     He was a son of Randolph and Eleanor (RYAN) COIN, both born in
     Virginia, and each representatives of fine old Southern
     families.  There they spent their earlier years, finally coming
     to Cass county, Indiana.  They each received such educations as
     the old-time schools afforded.  They became well established in
     Cass county and there spent the rest of their lives.
     Martin Coin was reared in the Hoosier state and when a boy
     assisted with the general work on the home farm, and he received
     a good common school education.  In early manhood he was married
     to Frances COYNER, a representative of one of the sterling
     pioneer families, who early settled in Perry township, this
     county, where Mrs. Coin was born, reared and educated.  She is a
     daughter of Jacob COYNER, who came of an old Maryland family,
     whose ancestors originally came from Germany, about the year
     1700.  The family became prominent in the old Oriole state,
     assisted in the development of the localities where they lived,
     fought in our early wars and encouraged the work of the school
     and the church.  The family finally moved to Indiana and became
     well established in Clinton county, known here for their honesty
     and industry, and many noble qualities of head and heart.  Jacob
     Coyner left a large and valuable estate for his children.
     Mrs. Coin's valuable farm of one hundred and forty-seven acres
     lies three and one-half miles northeast of Colfax.  It is well
     managed, well kept, everything denoting thrift and care.
     Mrs. Coin has one daughter, Mrs. Goldie GLADEN (sic), who was
     given excellent educational advantages.  She was married in 1908
     to Walker GLADDEN (sic), a young man of much promise and fine
     character.  They have one child (sic), a daughter, Frances
     Marguerite, born February 11, 1912, and a son, Raymond, born
     July 26, 1909.
Source: Pages 487-488   History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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JAMES W. COLLINS is a well- known business man and prominent official
of Frankfort. He was born in Highland county, Ohio, August 14, 1848,
and inherits in a marked degree the characteristics of the sturdy
Scotch-Irish ancestors from which he is descended. The family of
which he is a representative settled at an early day in Maryland and
from there his grandparents emigrated to Highland county, Ohio, about
the year 1820, and died in the latter state sometime in the early
fifties. They reared a family of five children, viz: Thomas, John,
Mary, William and George W. --- the latter the father of the subject
of this notice. George W. Collins was reared to agricultural
pursuits, and in early life assisted his father in the manufacture of
old-fashioned spinning wheels so common in the pioneer times and he
exercised his mechanical skill in this way until his twenty-fourth
year. He then married Mary J. PATTON, and immediately afterward began
carpentering and building, which he followed until 1854 in Ohio, and
then came to Clinton county, Ind., where he was similarly engaged for
two years, returning to his native state at the end of that period.
He died in Ross county, Ohio, March 16, 1858; his widow survives him,
and resides at this time with a daughter at the town of South Salem.
George W. and Mary J. Collins were the parents of the following
children: James W., Mary E., Edgar F., a physician of Mt. Sterling,
Ohio, and Laura, deceased. The father of Mrs. Collins was James
PATTON, and the maiden name of her mother was Margaret EDGAR, a
native of Kentucky and a relative of the TODD family to which Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln belonged.
     James W. Collins, who grew to manhood on a farm in Ross county,
     Ohio, attended the common schools and later South Salem academy.
     When twenty-one years of age he left Ross county, Ohio, and came
     to Indiana, locating at Frankfort, where he accepted the
     position of deputy in the county recorder's office under David
     B. CARTER, the duties of which he discharged for a period of
     three years. During the three years succeeding  Mr. Collins
     taught in the schools of Clinton county, and in the meantime
     began the study of law in the offices of Messrs. Page & Bayless,
     under whose instruction he continued for some months, and then
     went to La Fayette, where he remained about two years, with the
     law firm of Behm, Park & Behm. For the nest two years he resided
     at Colfax, and in 1879 returned to Frankfort, where he entered
     the practice of law. In December, 1881, he accepted the position
     of deputy county treasurer under Alexander B. GIVEN, in which
     capacity he continued two years; and later, for about the same
     length of time, conducted a thriving drug business. In the
     spring of 1892 he was complimented by being elected mayor of the
     city, which honorable position he filled with ability for one
     term of two years.
     Mr. Collins was married in Frankfort on the thirty-first day of
     December, 1884, to Miss Jesse B. MULHALLEN, who was born n
     Rockville, Ind., June 16, 1856. The union thus consummated has
     resulted in the birth of three children, namely - Ester, Todd
     and James C.   Mr. Collins is one of the leading republicans of
     Frankfort and has always taken a lively interest in the success
     of the party. He is a knight templar Mason and an Episcopalian
     in his religious belief, belonging to the Frankfort
     congregation, as does also his wife. In every relation relation
     of life Mr. Collins has shown himself to be a man of prudence,
     sagacity, discretion of judgment, of scrupulous integrity and
     gentlemanly demeanor. In the capacity as mayor, he proved a most
     excellent executive, and in the public positions to which he was
     called from time to time the ability and faithfulness which were
     displayed in the discharge of the duties incident thereto show
     him to have been a most competent and obliging public servant.
Source: Pages 624 - 625 A Portrait And Biographical Record of Boone
and Clinton Counties, Ind., ... Containing Biographical Sketches of
Many Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies
and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, and
Biographies of the Governors of Indiana. Published 1895 by A.W. Bowen
& Co. in Chicago.
Claybaugh. Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis,
Indiana
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COMBS, John E.
     Few can draw rules for their own guidance from the pages of
     Plutarch, but all are benefited by the delineation of those
     traits of character which find scope and exercise in the common
     walks of life.  The unostentatious routine of private life,
     although in the aggregate more important to the welfare of the
     community than any meteoric public career, cannot, from its very
     nature, figure in the public annals, though each locality's
     history should contain the names of those individuals who
     contribute to the success of the material affairs of a community
     and to its public stability-men who lead wholesome and exemplary
     lives which might be profitably studied by the coming
     generation.  In such a class must consistently appear the name
     of John E. Combs, one of the leading business men and
     public-spirited citizens of Clinton county, and president of the
     Citizens' National Bank of Mulberry, an honor which was
     conferred upon him by the votes of the stockholders of that
     sound and popular institution, and he is also largely interested
     in agricultural affairs and stock raising.  He is a man who
     leads a plain, industrious life, always endeavoring to deal
     honestly with his fellow men and to contribute in every way
     possible to the general public good in an unobtrusive manner.
     Mr. Combs was born March 24, 1853, in Madison township, near the
     town of Mulberry, Clinton county.  He is a scion of one of our
     sterling old pioneer families, noted for its industry and
     honesty.  He is a son of William B. and Susan Patterson
     (RICHARDSON) COMBS.  The elder Combs who came to Clinton county
     in 1852, became one of the prominent citizens of this locality.
     He was born in Butler county, Ohio, and was a son of John Combs,
     a native of New Jersey, where the family had long been well
     established.  Susan Patterson Richardson, mentioned above, was a
     native of Butler county, Pa., and was a daughter of M. C.
     RICHARDSON, a well-known citizen there in his day and
     generation.  The death of William B. Combs occurred at the age
     of fifty-five years.  His widow survived to the advanced age of
     eighty-one years.  They were the parents of five children: John
     E., of this review; Sarah Frances, who married a Mr. ELLIOTT,
     living at Elwood, Ind.; William B., and extensive farmer and
     stock man of Madison township, this county; Malachi and Charles
     N.
     The father of the above named children owned a valuable farm of
     two hundred acres here and was a successful general farmer.  He
     was a member of the Presbyterian church, and is an Odd Fellow
     and a Mason.  John E. COMBS was reared on the home farm, leading
     a life during his boyhood days not unlike that of other boys on
     the farm of his time.  He received his early education in the
     public schools, which has been greatly supplemented in after
     life by wide home reading and by actual contact with the
     business world.  He remained on the home farm until he was
     twenty-three years old, when he married Tillie STECKEL,
     representative of an excellent family, and herself a young lady
     of much promise.  She met an untimely death in 1880, when only
     twenty-one years of age, being accidentally burned.  She left
     one child, Ollie, who died when two years old.  She was a member
     of the Reformed church.  She was a daughter of Joseph STECKEL.
     Mr. Combs subsequently married Jennie MUSE, a native of Lehigh
     county, Pa., of a highly respected family, and she has proven to
     be a worthy helpmeet in every respect.  She is a daughter of
     Charles MUSE, deceased.  Our subject's last union has been
     blessed by the birth of six children: two sons and four
     daughters: Cleveland, married to Bertha KINNEY; Lulu, wife of E.
     CLAPPER of Lafayette, Ind.; Mattie B., Elizabeth B., William and
     Emma, who died in infancy.  These children were all given good
     educational advantages, attending the local schools and Purdue
     University, at Lafayette, Ind.
     John E. Combs has devoted his life principally to general
     farming and stock raising and he has long ranked among the
     leading men in these lines in the county.  He owns a finely
     improved and productive farm of four hundred acres in Madison
     township.  He has an attractive, large and modernly furnished
     home, and substantial and convenient outbuildings.  He is a
     stockholder in the Citizens' National Bank at Mulberry and has
     for some time been president of the same, doing much toward
     making this one of the leading banks of the county.  Politically
     he is a Democrat and is a worker for the party.  He takes a lead
     in all movements that are calculated to be of general good to
     the county in every way, and he is a man of exemplary habits, so
     that the high esteem in which he is universally held is well
     merited.  Mr. Combs is a member of the Mason, I. O. O. F. and
     the K.of P.  He was postmaster at Mulberry for four years during
     Cleveland's administration.
Source: Pages 480-482 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COMBS, Joseph
     The ancestors of the Combs family in America were emigrants from
     Holland, and they settled in Monmouth county, New Jersey, some
     time prior to the Revolutionary (sic) war.  The oldest member of
     the family known was John COMBS, who was the great-great
     grandfather of the subject of this sketch.  He was a soldier in
     the war for Independence, and served as captain in Forman's
     regiment of Continental troops, from March 20, 1777, till the
     date of his death, on September 2, 1779.  One of his sons was
     John COMBS, born in New Jersey, July 8, 1770, and on February
     25, 1793, married Elizabeth BOWNE.  This man  with his family,
     at an early date, settled in Butler county, Ohio, on a farm near
     Hamilton, where he died, September 5, 1829.  One of his sons,
     also named John, was born November 20, 1798.  He was married to
     Jane BROWN, and located on a farm three miles northwest of
     Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, where he spent all of his life.
     He practiced strict economy, became a man of considerable
     wealth, and was a very devout United Presbyterian, and with his
     wife and family were regular attendants at the church of that
     denomination in Hamilton.  He died there on his farm in April,
     1871, at the age of seventy-three years.  Nathan B. COMBS, the
     father of Joseph Combs, was the youngest son of the last named
     John Combs, and was born in Butler county, Ohio, April 16, 1831,
     and up to the twenty-second year of his age his life was passed
     on his father's farm near Hamilton in that county.  He had two
     older brothers, one James B. COMBS, who later settled in
     Washington, Ia., and William B. COMBS, who made his home on a
     farm one mile southeast of Mulberry, in this county.  John E.
     COMBS and William B. COMBS are sons of this member of the
     family, and now live near Mulberry, Clinton county, Indiana.
     Nathan B. Combs first visited this county in the year of 1853,
     and became acquainted with Mary Margaret WRIGHT, to whom he was
     afterward married.  She was the daughter of James W. Wright and
     Sarah (BALDRIDGE) WRIGHT, and then lived with her mother on a
     farm in what was then known as the Twelve Mile Prairie (now a
     part of Jackson township), and about one mile west of the
     Prairie Center church, in Clinton county.
     In August, 1856, Nathan B. Combs and wife and family settled on
     a quarter section of land in the northwest corner of Washington
     township, about three miles east of Mulberry, in Clinton county,
     Indiana, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their
     days.  The entire farm was then covered with as thickly grown
     and fine a body of timber as could be found in Indiana,
     consisting of oak, walnut, poplar, sugar maple, beech, ash,
     hickory and many other varieties.  Many of the white oak, black
     walnut and yellow poplar were of gigantic size.  Only a few
     acres of the timber had been deadened, and no clearing was done,
     and so before he could erect a house he had to cut and roll the
     logs and pile the brush, so as to make room for a building.
     This was quickly done and a log cabin for the family speedily
     erected, then a log stable and barn put up to shelter his horses
     and stock.  Next a small patch of ground was cleared and sowed
     to fall wheat, other timber was deadened, ground for corn in the
     spring was cleared, and thus in true pioneer style he made a
     home for himself and family in the western wilderness.  For
     nearly twenty years his nearest market was at Lafayette, Ind.,
     seventeen miles away, where all of his crops and produce has to
     be hauled, and part of the way ever had roads.  To make the trip
     in one day he had to get up about three o'clock a.m., feed his
     horses, get breakfast, so as to be able to start before
     daylight.  Always having to face a west wind, when the weather
     was cold, he often walked beside the wagon the entire distance
     to keep from freezing.  This was his regular occupation two or
     three days out of each week all winter long, in order to get all
     of his crops to market.  Spring and fall were always spent in
     clearing, ditching and fencing new ground for crops.  On account
     of the dense growth of heavy timber this was a terrible task.
     The finest walnut, white oak and poplar was considered fit for
     nothing but to be split into rails for building fences.  Trees
     that would now be worth hundreds of dollars were worked up in
     this way.  Field after field were thus cleared, fenced and sowed
     to grain, which yielded marvelous crops of wheat, corn, oats,
     clover, potatoes, etc.
     And so the life of Nathan B. Combs, like that of other pioneers,
     was a hard one, but his work was well done.  He and his wife did
     their part in making the "wilderness blossom as the rose," and
     preparing this county for the enjoyment of the generations yet
     unborn.  They accumulated considerable property, and left a fine
     well improved farm of three hundred and fifty acres as a
     monument to their toil.   Mr. Combs was a man of the strictest
     integrity, honest and honorable in all of his dealings.  He was
     a firm believer in and supporter of the Universalist faith,
     though not a member of any church, and was a member of the lodge
     of the Free and Accepted Masons, first at Jefferson, and then at
     Frankfort.  In physical appearance he was not tall, but very
     large, weighting nearly three hundred pounds.  He died in
     February, 1897.  His wife, Margaret Combs, died in August, 1893.
     Joseph COMBS was one of a family of ten children, and was born
     November 15, 1860, on the farm where his parents lived in
     Washington township, Clinton county.  He grew up under the
     surroundings above stated, and so from his earliest recollection
     he was inured to toil.  He assisted his father and brother in
     clearing the land, fencing, ditching, and cultivating his
     father's farm, and this occupied the entire time of every year,
     except about three months in the winter, when he attended the
     district school at the village of Hamilton, and where he
     acquired a common school education.  At the age of eighteen he
     secured a license to teach, and for the next six years he taught
     in the district schools of the county.  He made further
     preparation for teaching by attending several terms of the
     summer normal school in Frankfort, conducted by County
     Superintendent W. H. Mushlitz and R. G. Boone, superintendent of
     the Frankfort city schools.  Later he also attended the the
     (sic) State Normal School at Terre Haute, Ind.
     In 1886 he began the study of law in the office of Judge J. C.
     Suit, in Frankfort, and the next year was admitted to the bar of
     the Clinton Circuit Court.  March 1, 1887, he formed a
     partnership for the practice of law with J. C. Suit, under the
     firm name of Suit & Combs, which continued two years, and during
     which time he added to his previous study considerable knowledge
     of the principles of the law and the practice thereof in the
     Clinton Circuit Court.  During the next two years he practiced
     alone, having his office in the Heifield building on the east
     side of the public square.  In June, 1909, he was married to
     Leonara J. SEAWRIGHT, daughter of James A. SEAWRIGHT, of the
     city of Frankfort.  In January, 1890, he made his first venture
     in politics, and announced his name as a candidate of the
     Democratic party for prosecuting attorney at the spring
     convention.  His opponent was the late Francis M. Goldsberry, of
     Colfax, Ind., who was then one of the old time shrewd
     politicians.  Combs had then had no experience whatever
     politically, and knew very few of the party leaders in the
     county,  but he went industriously to work to get acquainted.
     The contest in the convention was quite spirited, and Combs was
     nominated by a very narrow margin.  Then he had to meet Fred A.
     Sims, as his Republican opponent in the fall election.  The
     county was then Republican, but the margin was so narrow as to
     make most elections hotly contested.  On account of the strength
     and popularity of Sims, many of the Democratic leaders expected
     Combs to be defeated, but when the returns from the voting were
     all in it showed that he had won in a very close race.  The
     final figures were, Sims 3,000, and Combs, 3,012.  He took
     charge of the office at once, diligently applied himself to a
     study of criminal law and practice, and soon became a vigorous
     and effective prosecutor, securing many convictions and allowing
     very few acquittals of persons charged with crime.  The Farley
     murder case and Freeman Cooper forgery case were two of the
     notable causes which he prosecuted.  The next year he was
     defeated for re-election by N. P. Claybaugh, his Republican
     opponent, along with all of his party on the county ticket.
     In December, 1892, he formed a partnership for the practice of
     law with O. S. Brumbaugh, attorney, under the firm name of
     Brumbaugh & Combs, which was a successful partnership and
     continuing for eight years, and doing a large business in this
     and surrounding counties.  The Shenkenberger murder case, the
     Toll Gate cases, and the Cornthwaite case, were some of the
     causes they were engaged in during this time.
     In June, 1901, he opened an office over the Clinton County Bank,
     and for the next seven years practiced alone.  About the 10th of
     May, 1908, he announced his name as the candidate of the
     Democratic party for judge of the Clinton Circuit Court, before
     the Democratic county convention soon to be held.  His opponents
     were Joseph P. Gray, C. G. Guenther and W. R. Moore.  He had
     only three weeks to make any canvass for the nomination.  Mr.
     Gray, his strongest opponent, and his friends, were quite
     confident that Gray would be easily nominated.  Combs made as
     thorough a canvass as he could in the short time, and when the
     convention met it was apparent that it would be a close contest.
     Mr. Gray and his friends were still confident of the result, but
     were considerably surprised at the strength Combs  was
     developing.  When the balloting began it became a neck and neck
     race, Combs having a slight lead in the first few ballots.  On
     the fourth ballot Gray's friends rallied and had a slight lead,
     and at the end of the fifth ballot Gray had a big lead and was
     getting close to the nomination.  Then Combs' friends made a
     heroic rally, and the sixth ballot closed with the following
     result, Gray 133, Combs 136.  This settled the contest, and on
     the next ballot Combs received the number necessary to nominate.
     Then Mr. Combs discovered that he was in the fiercest political
     struggle of his life.  He was the youngest man that had ever
     made the race for judge of the court.  His opponent on the
     Republican ticket was Judge Claybaugh, who had been a life-long
     attorney and one of the leading members of the bar, and had the
     prestige of six years on the bench to his credit, and many
     politicians believed that Combs stood no show of being elected.
     But general conditions were favorable to the Democrats, and
     unfavorable to the success of the Republican party, and Combs
     went quietly to work and assisted his party.  In addition to
     organization he made an extensive personal canvass in all parts
     of the county, and so was well prepared for the battle when
     election day came.  When the balloting was over and the returns
     all in, it showed that Combs had won the election by a plurality
     of 103.
     He took the bench on November 12, 1908, a few days before he was
     forty-eight years old.  From the first he has been a diligent
     worker and close student of the law and of the cases that come
     before him, always making it the rule to carefully study every
     case he is called upon to try.  He has been impartial and fair
     in his rulings, always trying to give every one a square deal,
     regardless of who he is or what his station or position in life
     may be.  He has given quite general satisfaction and fully met
     the expectations of his friends who placed their confidence in
     him and gave him their support.  He has a strong leaning to the
     equity side of every case, and to do equity and justice to every
     one before him is his desire, so far as the rules and principles
     of the law will permit.  He is a strong believer in law
     enforcement, and yet will deal leniently with prisoners if he
     believes the good of society does not demand harsh punishment,
     and has granted many suspended sentences in cases he thought the
     circumstances would justify him in so doing, and where it would
     help to reform the prisoner.  He takes much interest in the
     Juvenile Court and in looking after the betterment of the
     condition of neglected, mistreated or delinquent children.
     In politics he is a life-long Democrat.  He has long been a
     member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a member of
     the Woodmen of the World, and a Royal Arch Mason.  He is a
     member of the First Presbyterian church of Frankfort and one of
     the elders in that organization, and an active worker in the
     Sunday school.  His family consists of his wife and one
     daughter, Eleanor COMBS, sixteen years old, now in the third
     year of the Frankfort high school.  Mr. Combs takes much
     interest in all affairs pertaining to the public schools and the
     cause of education in general, and in the betterment of the
     people of the city and county.  He is a diligent student of
     history and general literature, and has a large library.
     Nathan B. Combs, veterinary surgeon, and representative in the
     last session of the Indiana Legislature from Clinton county, at
     Mulberry, Ind., is a brother; also John COMBS, retired farmer,
     at Mulberry, Ind., and Martin V. COMBS, farmer, in North Dakota.
     Mrs. Jennie SWADENER, Mulberry, Ind., Mrs. J. H. GROVER,
     Frankfort, Ind., and Mrs. A. W. BLACK, Los Angeles, Cal., are
     sisters.
Source: Pages 384-389 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COMBS, William B.
     William B. Combs was born in Butler county, Ohio, September 22,
     1822.  His father, John Combs, was a native of new Jersey, who
     in 1811, moved west with his family and settled on a farm in
     Butler county.  Ohio, near the city of Hamilton, where the
     subject of this sketch was born.  William began working on the
     farm at a very early age and was engaged in the occupation of
     farming during his whole life.  In the winter seasons he
     attended the district school and acquired a common school
     education, but the farm work often interfered with regular
     attendance, even in that season.
     He remained on the farm helping his father until 1832, when he
     married Susan P. RICHARDSON, of Hamilton, Ohio.  Soon afterward
     he and his young wife moved to Clinton county, Indiana, arriving
     on November 8, 1852, where he purchased a farm about two miles
     southeast of Mulberry, on which he located and remained to
     occupy till his death, which occurred in October, 1878.
     He cleared his land without  assistance, erecting first a log
     cabin, which was subsequently replaced by a large new residence.
     His support was always given to the Democratic party.  He was
     always an active friend of education and benevolent enterprises,
     and was a member of the Odd Fellows, Masons and Good Templars
     Lodges.
Source: Pages 802-802 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COMBS, William B.
     He to whom this sketch is dedicated is a member of one of the
     oldest and most honored pioneer families of Clinton county and
     he has personally lived up to the full tension of the primitive
     days when was here initiated the march of civilization so that
     there is a particular interest attached to his career, while he
     stands today as one of the representative citizens of Madison
     township, for his life has been one of hard work which has
     resulted in the development of a good farm which he owns and
     which yields him a comfortable living.
     William B. Combs was born on the old Combs homestead, a mile
     west of where he now lives in Madison township, Clinton county.
     November 3, 1858.  He is a son of William B. COMBS, Sr.,, who
     was a native of Butler county, Ohio, and a son of John COMBS, a
     native of Ireland.  William B. Combs, Sr., married Susan B.
     RICHARDSON, who was a native of Butler county, Ohio, and a
     daughter of an old Buckeye family.  The parents of our subject
     grew to maturity in their native state and there were married,
     coming from there to Clinton county in an early day and settled
     in the woods, where they built a log cabin, and by hard work
     developed a good farm of two hundred and forty acres.  The death
     of the father occurred at the age of fifty-five years, his widow
     surviving to the advanced age of eighty years, seven months and
     three days.  To them five children were born, namely: John E.,
     president of the Citizens Bank, of Mulberry; Mrs. Sadie F.
     ELLIOTT, of Elwood, Ind.; William B., Jr., of this sketch;
     Malaciah, is a prominent physician of Terre Haute, Ind., and
     Charles, a successful physician of Terre Haute.
     William B. Combs was reared on the home farm and educated in the
     public schools.  On December 30, 1880, he married Emma RODOCKER,
     who was born, reared and educated in this county.  She was born
     on Mary (sic) 20, 1863, the daughter of D. W. RODOCKER, who died
     in August, 1912, at the age of seventy-five years.  He was a
     native of Ashland county, Ohio.  His wife was Elizabeth
     SHANABERRY, a native of Richland, O., and a daughter of Peter
     and Elizabeth SHANABERGER.  The death of Mrs. Combs's mother
     occurred in 1909 at the age of seventy-one years.  Mrs. Combs is
     one of a family of the following children:  Mrs. Jennie SEYFRIED
     Emma C., Mrs. Anna C. CLAPPER, Joseph C.,  Mrs. Laura GERMAN,
     Mrs. Amanda FLESHHAUER, Minnie, wife of William MILLER.
     William B. Combs, of this sketch, has devoted his life to
     general farming and stock raising and has met with large
     success.  He is now owner of one hundred and seventy-six acres,
     which is well improved in every way, including a large and well
     furnished residence, large barn and a one hundred-ton silo, his
     place being known as the Pleasant Ridge Farm.  He pays
     considerable attention to stock raising.
     To William B. Combs and wife four children have been born,
     namely: Clark, he being engaged on the Clover Leaf Railroad, and
     is the father of two children, Earl William and Frona Caroline;
     our subject's second child is Lawrence Glen, a successful
     physician, V. S., who was graduated from the Indiana Veterinary
     College at Indianapolis in 1898; William Boom is farming in
     Madison township, Sadie Florence, who was graduated from the
     Mulberry high school is now a student at Oberlin College,
     Oberlin, O.
     Politically, Mr. Combs is a Democrat, but has never been an
     office seeker.  He and his wife are members of the Methodist
     Episcopal church.  They are both active in church and Sunday
     school work.
Source: Pages 915-917 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COOK, John D.
      The firm of Cook Brothers, blacksmiths and wagon makers, of
      Mulberry, Clinton county, is one of the most popular and best
      known of its kind in this section of the state.  It would be a
      credit to towns much larger than this.  The firm has met with
      exceptional success, partly because these gentlemen have
      developed into experts in their line, and partly because they
      turn out honest work and never fail to deal with their fellow
      men as they would have them deal in return.  The Cook brothers
      are also men of persistency and indomitable industry, and never
      let the grass grow under their feet.  They are good citizens in
      every respect as all will gladly attest who know them well.
      The firm is composed of Jacob Cook , the senior member of the
      firm, and John D. Cook our subject.  They have two large shops,
      one for horseshoeing and general blacksmithing, and one for
      wagon making. A number of skilled artisans are employed in
      each.  John D. is in charge of the blacksmith shop and Jacob
      superintends the wagon works.  They both understand well all
      the ins and outs of the work that is constantly going on in
      both shops and each shop is under a superb system, and equipped
      in an up-to-date manner for prompt and high-grade work.  They
      are kept busy, work coming to them from all parts of the county
      and there is a good demand for their wagons owing to their
      superior qualities of workmanship and material.
      John D. Cook was born near Mulberry, Clinton county, March 11,
      1864.  He is a son of Philip Cook or KOCH, as it is spelt in
      German, this being a German family.  The father was born at
      Hesse-Darmstadt, and there he grew to manhood, was educated and
      learned the shoemaker's trade.  He married Clara HEDDRICH, also
      a native of Germany.  They remained in their native land until
      two daughters were born -- Elizabeth, who lives in Mulberry,
      and Christina, who married Dr. KOONS, who died, leaving two
      children, Mrs. P. V. RUCH and a son.  After emigrating to
      America three sons were born to Philip Cook and wife: Jacob,
      member of the firm mentioned above; Henry, who is a successful
      druggist, who married and has one child; and John D., of this
      review.  The death of  Phillip Cook occurred at the age of
      sixty-one years, his widow surviving until she was eighty-one
      years old.
      John D. Cook was reared on the farm and he received a common
      school education, besides attended the State Normal at Terre
      Haute.  He began life for himself by teaching school two years,
      then entered the shop with his brother Jacob and learned the
      blacksmith's trade and wagon making and he has continued in
      this line of endeavor to the present time with much success.
      He was married in 1894 to Margaret Peters, who was born, reared
      and educated in Clinton county.  She is a daughter of R. H.
      PETERS.  To this union one child was born, Lena M. His first
      wife died in March 1895.  Mr. Cook was married again on August
      13, 1896, to Amanda JACOBY, daughter of Moses and Christina
      (KAUFFMAN) JACOBY, there were two children by the second wife:
      Lee, born May 20, 1898, and accidentally killed December 28,
      1911, and Emma, born February 17, 1900, now attending high
      school.
      John D. Cook was elected township trustee in 1895 and served
      five years, during which time he did much to encourage
      education in his vicinity; also in securing good gravel roads
      and in making other lasting improvements.  In fact, it may be
      said that he made Madison township famous for its roads.
      Politically, he is a Democrat. He belongs to the Masonic order,
      and is a member of the Lutheran church, to which his family
      also belong.
Source: Pages 493 - 494.   History of Clinton County, Indiana....
With Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COOPER, Wilson T.  M.D.
     The man of medicine occupies a place in the world alone; no
     other profession or trade or business holds the sacred trust and
     the emotional beauty of his; his work is hard, but it is
     inspired, and filled to the brim with the Saviour's loving
     kindness.  The Latin phrase, amicus humani gencris, friend of
     the human race, stands as a motto to his life, and should be
     engraved upon the monuments of time as symbolical of the medical
     profession.  Dr. Cooper, of our sketch, is one of the oldest
     practitioners in the state, having about reached the Psalmist's
     allotment of three score and ten, but he still continues active
     practice, and is regarded as a necessity by numerous families of
     Clinton county.
     Dr. Cooper was born on April 20, 1844, in Rush county, Indiana,
     and did not come to Clinton county until 1871.  He was the son
     of Stanley and Lucinda (WARD) COOPER, natives of Kentucky, and
     both now being deceased.  The father moved to Rush county, this
     state, when he was eighteen years of age.  Like his son, the
     father was a physician of the old-time variety.  He practiced in
     connection with farming and often underwent many hardships to
     attend to his patients.  The mother was born in Boone county,
     Kentucky.  Thirteen children were born to them, the five now
     living being John W., Amanda, Morgan, Helen, Wilson and Annie.
     Dr. Cooper's common school education was received in the schools
     of Rush county, and he later attended the Cincinnati College of
     Medicine and Surgery, and graduated from that institution in
     1871.  He came to this county, to Scircleville, in that year and
     began his general practice, which has continued with ever
     increasing success until the present time.  He owns a pleasant
     office and home in the town above mentioned.
     On November 30, 1876, Dr. Cooper was married to Alice GUFFIN,
     who was born in Rush county, Indiana, on February 12, 1853, and
     was the daughter of Andrew and Clara (BROOKS) GUFFIN.  Her
     father was a native of Rush county and her mother came from the
     state of Ohio.  Nine children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Cooper:
     Clyde (deceased), Pearl, Stanley, Lucy, Andrew (deceased),
     Wilson (deceased), Clara, Charles and Horace.
     Dr. Cooper has always remained loyal to the Republican party,
     and was the first Republican ever to be elected to the office of
     auditor of Clinton county, which position he obtained in 1886.
Source: Pages 573-574 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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NELSON W. COSNER is a well known and highly respected citizen of
Frankfort, where for a number of years he has acceptably held the
office of justice of the peace. His ancestors in the United States
were North Carolina people, in which state his grandfather, John
Cosner, was born and reared. John Cosner and Margaret PIKE were
married in North Carolina, and lived there until 1831, when they
emigrated to Indiana and settled in the county of Hendricks, where
their deaths occurred in the year 1851 and 1856 respectively. They
were the parents of eight children, whose names are as follows:
Anthony, William, Mary, Elizabeth, Sally, Lovy, Hannah, Peggy, all
living but four, Mary, Anthony, Elizabeth and Sally. Both parents
were devoted members of the Society of Friends, in which Mr. Cosner
was an able minister for many years, and they both are remembered as
most exemplary and pious people. They were among the pioneers of
Hendricks county, and did much in a quiet way for the moral
improvement of the community which they assisted in founding. William
Cosner, second son of the above, and father fo the immediate subject
of this sketch, was born January 14, 1806, in Forsythe county, N. C.,
and there grew to manhood on a farm, acquiring in the mean time a
common school education. He accompanied his parents to Indiana in
1831, and assisted in clearing the home farm in Hendricks county,
which is still in possession of members of the family. In 1832 was
solemnized his marriage with Epervia Orrell, daughter of Daniel and
Mary (BLACK) ORRELL, natives of North Carolina, in which state Mrs.
Cosner first saw the light of day of the 7th of March, 1816. Daniel
and Mary Orrell both lived to be very old people, the former dying at
the remarkable age of 102 years. He was a saddler in earlier life,
later became a physician, and by marriage had seventeen children.
After his marriage, William Cosner purchased a tract of government
land in Hendricks county, consisting of 160 acres, to which he
subsequently added a similar area, and became the possessor of ample
means. Mr. and Mrs. Cosner lived where they originally settled the
remainder of their days, the former dying December 23, 1852, and the
latter in August, 1890. The following are the names of their seven
children: Emily, wife of J. H. RUDD; Malinda, wife of S. S. SHIELDS;
Daniel, deceased; Peggy, wife of J. M. CHAMPION; Nelson W., Mary A.,
wife of T. VAUGHAN, and an infant that died unnamed.
     Nelson W. Cosner was born October 11, 1844, in Hendricks county,
     Ind., and, like the majority of county lads, passed his youthful
     years amid the active but uneventful scenes of the farm, and
     early learned to appreciate the true dignity of earnest labor.
     Deprived of a father's care and advise when but eight years old,
     he remained with his widowed mother until his twenty-first year,
     looking after her interests, and when twenty-two he married and
     settled on the old farm, which he had previously purchased, and
     began the contented life of a tiller of the soil. He remained in
     Hendricks county until 1874, when he removed to the county of
     Marion and engaged in the milling business, continuing the same
     about one year, and then accepted a position as railroad bridge
     carpenter, which he followed for about the same length of time.
     During the succeeding thirteen years Mr. Cosner followed
     carpentering and building, after which he engaged in the
     manufacture of lumber of Frankfort, where he operated a mill
     very successfully until meeting with a very severe accident,
     which resulted in the loss of his good right arm, since which
     time he has not been able to perform and kind of manual labor.
     In 1890, Mr. Cosner was elected justice of the peace in
     Frankfort, the functions of which office he has since performed
     in an able and satisfactory manner. He votes the republican
     ticket, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist church, in
     which both are valuable workers. Mr. Cosner has a military
     record of six months' duration, having served from April, 1864,
     till September of the same year, in the army of the Cumberland
     as a private in company C, One Hundred and Seventeenth Indiana
     infantry. He was discharged at Knoxville, Tenn., on account of
     expiration of period of enlistment, then became a member of
     company B, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Indiana volunteer
     infantry, from January, 1864, to October, 1864, and is now the
     recipient of a pension of four dollars a month. Mrs. Cosner owns
     a pleasant home in Frankfort, which is presided over by his
     wife, whom he married on the 1st day of September, 1866, in
     Hendricks county. Mrs. Cosner's maiden name was Sally Phillips,
     daughter of Levi and Elizabeth PHILLIPS, and she has borne her
     husband the following children: Edgar O., book-keeper in Chicago
     stock yards; Orra, a railroad employe (sic); Anna (deceased);
     Mark, connected with the Times office, Frankfort; Verne,
     deceased, and Harry, who lives at home with his parents. Mr.
     Cosner is a member of the G. A. R. of Frankfort; was a charter
     member of the Reuben Masten post, No. 431, and was transferred
     to this place.
Source: Pages 627 - 628 A Portrait And Biographical Record of Boone
and Clinton Counties, Ind., ... Containing Biographical Sketches of
Many Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies
and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, and
Biographies of the Governors of Indiana. Published 1895 by A.W. Bowen
& Co. in Chicago.
Claybaugh. Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis,
Indiana
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COULTER, David Alexander
     It is a pleasing task to write the biography of a gentleman who
     has been so long identified with the material activities of his
     own and other communities, as David Alexander Coulter, and who,
     in addition to his individual interests has not unfrequently
     been called to positions of honor and trust in the public
     service.  He stands conspicuously forward as one of the leading
     men of his day and generation in Clinton county, and wherever
     known, his name passes current as a synonym for all that is
     upright and honorable in citizenship.  Paternally, Mr. Coulter
     is descended from Irish ancestry, his grandfather John COULTER
     having been a native of the Emerald Isle and a Presbyterian
     minister of unusual scholarship and eloquence.  He ended a
     useful and exceedingly brilliant career in Juniata county, Pa.,
     where he located when a young man and where he married and
     reared a family.  Among his children being a son, John COULTER,
     Jr., who was born in the county indicated, in the year 1813.
     John Coulter, Jr., a farmer by occupation, remained in his
     native state of Pennsylvania until 1854, at which time he came
     to Clinton county and purchased a farm in Ross township, where
     he resided until within a short period of his death, when he
     moved to Rossville, dying there, September 24, 1864.  In the
     year 1836 he married Margaret GIVEN, of Juniata county, Pa., a
     daughter of James and Nancy (ENSLOW) GIVEN, of the same state;
     the father, a farmer and a representative citizen, who moved to
     Clinton county, in 1856, and a number of years later, changed
     his residence to Frankfort, where he and his wife lived retired
     lives to the end of their days.
     David Alexander Coulter, son of John and Mary Coulter, is
     likewise a native of Juniata county, Pa., where his birth
     occurred on the 21st day of December 1846.  He was reared to
     agriculture pursuits, received a common school education and
     devoted himself to farming in the county of Juniata, until 1863,
     when he came to Frankfort, and entered the business house of his
     uncles, A. B. and B. GIVEN, for whom he clerked until the spring
     of the following year.  He then resigned his position and
     enlisted in Company H.  One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Indiana
     Volunteers, with which he served until discharged September 29th
     of the same year, doing garrison duty the meanwhile with an
     occasional brush with the Confederate cavalry force under
     General Forrest.  Upon his retirement from the army, Mr. Coulter
     accepted a clerkship with John Brown, a prominent merchant of
     Logansport, Ind., but in 1867, left that city and returned to
     Frankfort, where he formed a partnership in the clothing
     business with J. W. Coulter, which under the firm's name of J.
     W. Coulter & Brother, lasted until 1871, when he disposed of his
     interest in the establishment to his brother and engaged in the
     coal and mining business at Rockville, this state.  Before
     moving to the latter place, however, he took an active part in
     organizing The First National Bank of Frankfort, of which he was
     elected a member of the first board of directors.  He also
     assisted in establishing The Park Banking Co., of Rockville, but
     in the above year, sold his coal interests in that town and
     returning to Frankfort again became associated with his brother,
     with whom he continued until 1878, under the same name as
     before.  While thus engaged, the firm erected the imposing
     business block in Frankfort, now occupied by J. W. Coulter's
     Sons & Company, one of the leading commercial establishments of
     the city besides contributing in various other ways to the
     material advancement of the place.
     Mr. Coulter, in 1878, bought his brother's interest in the
     clothing business and conducted same with marked success and
     profit until 1881, when he disposed of his stock to Coulter and
     Hockman, to become cashier of the Farmers' Bank of Frankfort,
     which responsible position he filled with credit and
     satisfaction until elected president of the institution in 1904.
     He has also been president of the water works system, of
     Frankfort, ever since its organization, besides holding various
     other posts of honor and trust including that of auditor of the
     American Central Life Insurance Company, of Indianapolis;
     Commissary General of the Indiana State militia, with the rank
     of colonel on the staffs of Ex-Governors Mount and Durbin, in
     which capacity he served with years; trustee of the Indiana
     State Prison at Michigan City; president for nine years of the
     School Board of Frankfort, during which time he was instrumental
     in erecting the present high school building of that city, one
     of the largest and most convenient edifices of the kind in
     northern Indiana, besides serving two terms in the common
     council and representing his Congressional district as a
     delegate in the Republican National Convention, at St. Louis, in
     1896, where he took an active and influential part in bringing
     about the nomination of William McKinley, for President of the
     Untied States.
     Mr. Coulter, as indicated above, is a Republican in politics and
     for many years has been active in the affairs of his party in
     Clinton county.  He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic,
     the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in religion is a
     consistent and influential member of the Presbyterian church.
     He was married January, 1874, to Miss Mary DEPEW, of Park
     county, Indiana, who has borne him three children, only one of
     whom, Maude, wife of George C. CULLOM, of Frankfort, is living.
     Mr. Coulter's career has been one of great activity and
     usefulness and in the main, attended by remarkable business
     advancement and financial prosperity.  He filled with credit and
     honor the various public positions to which called, and his
     official as well as his business and personal record, has ever
     been above reproach.  He is essentially progressive in all he
     undertakes and endowed with the power to mould circumstances to
     suit his purposes.  His success in overcoming adverse conditions
     and mounting to his present high and honorable station in the
     world of affairs, is such as few attain.  Of strong convictions,
     positive character, insuppressible integrity, he is classed with
     the most intelligent and influential of Frankfort's
     representative men, and he holds a warm and abiding place in the
     hearts of his fellow citizens.
Source: Pages 372-374 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COULTER, James W.
     To offer in a work of this province an adequate resume of the
     strenuous, useful and honorable career of the late James W.
     Coulter would be impossible, but, with others of those who have
     conserved the industrial and civic progress of Frankfort and
     Clinton county, he may well find consideration in the noting of
     the more salient points that have marked his life and labors.
     He has long been a dominating power in connection with the
     retail business interests of the county-seat, later was a
     leading banker and financier here for many years, achieving a
     position as one of the substantial capitalists of this section
     of Indiana, gaining his success through normal and worthy means,
     and he stood for more than half a century as a singularly
     admirable type of the progressive, honorable and broad-minded
     man of affairs.  He was a man of public spirit and patriotic
     impulses, was always ready to do his full share in promoting
     readers of this work to require any fulsome encomium here, his
     life speaking for itself in stronger terms than the biographer
     could employ.  It left its imprint upon those who came in
     contact with him ; and the youth, hesitating at the parting of
     the ways, could do no better than to follow the example he set.
     He reached the advanced age of seventy-five years.  Heaven
     having lengthened out his life beyond the Psalmist's allotted
     three score and ten until he was permitted to witness the
     vicissitudes of the most remarkable epoch in the world's
     business and inventive history, in all of which he was an
     interested spectator, playing, indeed, no small part in pushing
     forward the wheels of civilization in his own locality, having
     done much in promoting the material and moral welfare of the
     city of Frankfort, where he took up his residence when it was
     but a struggling village.  Mr. Coulter was a man of sterling
     character, conservative habits and pure thinking.  He was
     even-tempered, patient, scrupulously honest in all the relations
     of life, hospitable and charitable, and his many kindly deeds
     were actuated solely from his largeness of heart, rather than
     from any desire to gain the plaudits of his fellow men.
     James W. Coulter was born April 24, 1838, in Pennsylvania.  He
     was a scion of sterling old stock of the Keystone state, and was
     a son of John and Margaret (GIVEN) COULTER, noted for their
     industry and honesty, being typical of the rugged pioneer type.
     The subject of this memoir remained at home with his parents
     until he reached young manhood.  Early in life he received a
     meager schooling, but being always of an investigating turn of
     mind and, remaining a student all his life, he became a well
     informed man.  When young he came to Clinton county, Indiana,
     and located at Frankfort, and in due course of time he became
     one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of the
     county.  He had the distinction of handling the first regular
     mail route into Frankfort, having carried the mail from Delphi
     on horseback to Frankfort.  He also owned and operated a stage
     line between the two towns, carrying passengers, mail and
     express.
     When Mr. Coulter located in Frankfort it was but a small village
     of little importance in practically an unimproved locality,
     sparsely settled, without railroad connections and practically
     isolated from the outside world.  Taking an interest in the
     growth of the village into a town and then its development into
     a city, he did much to promote the advancement of Frankfort to
     its present beautiful and prosperous condition, he having been
     one of the veteran business men of the city and county.
     When the First National Bank was organized Mr. Coulter was among
     the number of men whose names appeared on the original charter,
     and when the well-known institution was granted a new charter
     only a short time before our subject's death, his name was also
     among those who petitioned for it.  He had been the president of
     the institution for the past thirty years, and under him and
     officials working under his direction, the bank has become one
     of the strongest institutions of its kind in the state, and
     stands as a monument to Mr. Coulter's work in the business
     world.  He was a man of broad mind and conservative, his
     integrity being absolutely beyond cavil, and he therefore
     enjoyed to the fullest extent the confidence and esteem of the
     people of this locality.  Keeping fully abreast of the times in
     all phases of the banking business, he was always quick to
     inaugurate such new methods of banking as were consistent with
     safe and honorable work in this connection.  Besides being
     president of the bank, he was president of the Frankfort Load
     and Trust Company, and a member of the board of directors of the
     bank and trust company.
     On October 10, 1866, Mr. Coulter was united in marriage with
     Eliza A. PERRIN, of Clinton county, who still survives.  Mrs.
     Coulter was born September 23, 1844, near Fincastle, Virginia,
     daughter of Henry C. and Susan (SECRIST) PERRIN, who came to
     Ross township, Clinton county, in 1846, and here lived the life
     of a pioneer farmer.  Here she grew to womanhood and received
     such education as the old-time schools afforded.  She is a
     descendant of one of the worthy and influential pioneer families
     of this locality.  She proved a worthy helpmate to her able
     husband, and much of his large success in life was due to her
     sympathy and encouragement.  Four children sruvive (sic):
     Jeannette Coulter, Mrs. William C. ALLEN, of Reno, Nevada;
     Charles C. and Frank E., all of whom received excellent
     educational advantages and are well situated in life: all are
     popular with a wide circle of friends and all reflect in their
     daily lives the wholesome home training they received.  One
     daughter, Cora, died in young womanhood.  A brother of our
     subject, D. A. COULTER, is living in Frankfort.
     On September 10, 1861, James W. Coulter, forsook the pleasures
     of home and business opportunities to do what he could toward
     suppressing the fierce rebellion in the Southland, enlisting on
     that date for three years' service in Company H, Third Indiana
     Cavalry.  He proved to be a most faithful and gallant soldier
     and his rise from the ranks was rapid, being due to meritorious
     conduct on the field of battle and to his natural ability.  He
     saw much hard service, risking fearlessly life and limb on many
     of the sanguinary fields of the South, and, with other members
     of the company who survived the awful carnage of that greatest
     civil conflict of which history treats, was mustered out at
     Indianapolis, September 10, 1864, with the rank of colonel.
     In 1866, in partnership with his brother, D. A. Coulter, he
     embarked in the clothing business in a room now occupied by the
     First National Bank in Frankfort.  After being in the business
     for a short time he bought the interest of his brother, and soon
     after the completion of the building now occupied by the J. W.
     Coulter Sons' Clothing Store, he moved into that location.
     Through his honest dealings, his keen foresight and pleasant
     manners, he built up a large business, which continued to grow
     with advancing years, his hundreds of regular customers coming
     from all parts of Clinton county.  He retired from the
     mercantile business in 1904, selling his interests to his sons,
     who have since conducted with much success the business
     established by their father, being, in fact, regarded as worthy
     sons of a worthy sire and ranking among Clinton county's leading
     business men of a younger generation.
     As a business man the elder Coulter was acknowledged one of the
     best clothing men in the state he manufacturers of the lines he
     handled.  As a citizens (sic) he was one of the foremost in
     assisting to develop the town into a beautiful and prosperous
     city, as before indicated in this review.
     Mr. Coulter was a life-long member of the Presbyterian church
     and had always taken an active part in the work of the same,
     having served as an officer in the church at different times and
     always gave his best time to its upbuilding.  He was a member of
     Franklin Lodge, No. 560, Benevolent and Protective Order of
     Elks, and he lived up to the teachings of the order.  He was
     truly a fine example of a man, being unpretentious, and a man
     among men, doing much to encourage young men just starting out
     in life, and through his kindly ways made for himself a wide
     acquaintance of loyal and admiring friends.  Though he did not
     make known his work among his less fortunate fellow men, he took
     an active part in the charity work in the city of his residence,
     cheerfully assisting liberally the needy and unfortunate, and
     though but few knew of his acts of kindness and charity,
     hundreds were made happy by his acts.
     Mr. Coulter had been in declining health for a period eighteen
     months, but his condition had not been considered serious.  In
     the autumn of 1912 he planned a trip to California, having
     intended to spend the winter following in the west, hoping it
     would be beneficial to his health, but upon the advice of his
     physicians, abandoned the trip.  During the months following he
     would show signs of improvement, but would suffer relapse, until
     he was finally summoned to his eternal rest from his beautiful,
     modern residence at 460 West Clinton street, Frankfort, on
     Wednesday afternoon, May 21, 1913.  The somewhat unexpected news
     of his death proved to be a great shock to the entire city and
     county and was the occasion for profound regret and sorrow.
     Having spent the greater part of his life in this locality,
     where he rose to success by his own efforts along, Mr. Coulter
     was one of the best known men in this section of the state, and
     he enjoyed the admiration and esteem of multitudes of friends.
     Frankfort's leading newspaper had the following to say,
     editorially, of the passing away of the lamented subject of this
     memoir:
     "In the death of James W. Coulter, which occurred yesterday,
     Frankfort lost one of its splendid citizens.  In business and
     private life Mr. Coulter was noted for his honesty, strict
     integrity and his high sense of honor in all his dealings with
     his fellow men.  He was a self-made man in every sense of the
     term, having started from the bottom and worked himself up to an
     enviable position in the city's commercial life.  By his
     industry, perseverance and sound business judgment he
     accumulated a fortune, and his example was one that gives hope
     to every struggling young man and encourages him to strive
     unceasingly for success.  And furthermore, he achieved a success
     without sacrificing a single principle of Christian conduct and
     it was frequently said of him that he had not an enemy in the
     world.  He represented the very highest type of citizenship and
     he was one of Frankfort's most useful citizens.  One of Mr.
     Coulter's leading characteristics was his kindness to all in
     misfortune.  He practiced charity quietly, but extensively, and
     every year he gave freely of his money in relieving those in
     distress and worthy of help.  His personality was attractive,
     his manner genial, and he was noted for his loyalty to friends.
     No citizen of Frankfort was held in higher esteem, and his
     never-ceasing efforts for the uplift of the city have left their
     impress upon the community."
Source: Pages 368-372 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COVELY, Francis G.
     That the career of such a man as Francis G. Covely, well known
     retired farmer, of Mulberry, Clinton county, besides being
     treasured in the hearts of relatives and friends, should have
     its public record also, is peculiarly proper because a knowledge
     of men, whose substantial reputation rests upon their
     attainments and character, must exert a wholesome influence upon
     the rising generation.  We transmit the chronicle of such a life
     with the hope of instilling into the minds of the rising
     generation the important lesson that honor and industry will
     have their reward in due course of time.
     Mr. Covely was born August 31, 1847 in Berks county,
     Pennsylvania. He is the son of David and Mary (GERY) COVELY,
     both parents natives of the Keystone state and of German
     descent. David Covely was a son of William Covely, who was a
     native of Pennsylvania, where his ancestors settled in very
     early days, emigrating from Germany. David Covely was born in
     Berks county, Pennsylvania, where all his life was passed and
     where his death occurred in 1892. His widow is also deceased. To
     David and Mary Covely sixteen children were born, the subject of
     this sketch being the first in order of birth.  The names of the
     others are as follows: David, Sarah, the wife of Edwin BOWER,
     William (deceased), Mary, the wife of James SALLADA ; John,
     Michael, Joseph, Matilda, the wife of James GRICE; Henry,
     Caroline (deceased), Jerry, and four that died in infancy.
     At the early age of fifteen years Francis G. Covely began life
     for himself, working at any honest labor his hands found to do.
     After his twenty-first years he turned his attention to the
     carpenters trade, at which he became a skilled workman.  In 1870
     he became a resident of Clinton county, locating at the village
     of Mulberry, where he carried on his trade for eight years,
     after which he engaged in farming on rented land until 1880.  In
     that year he purchased his present farm of eighty acres in
     Washington township, upon which he has made many substantial
     improvements, including a fine house and barn.  His place is
     under a very successful state of cultivation.
     Mr. Covely was married November 17, 1872, to Mary FREAS,
     daughter of John and Rachael (BROWN) FREAS.  The father was a
     native of France and the mother was born in Lehigh county,
     Pennsylvania.  John Freas came to America when eighteen years
     old in company with a brother, who died in Clinton county in
     1888.  His widow is also deceased.  The following are the names
     of the nine children born to John and Rachael FREAS: Samuel,
     Thomas, William, John, Mary, Lena, married to Henry GREEN;
     Susan, wife of Henry GARY; Emma, wife of Edward LIPP, and Ella,
     wife of Walter SUIT.
     To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Covely have been born the
     following children: William (deceased), Gertrude, Rachael and
     John.  His grandchildren are Francis, Ralph and Frederick
     Covely: Marvin MOHLER and Florence Covely.
     Mr. Covely affiliates with the Democrat party, and he belongs to
     the Improved Order of Red Men, holding membership with Dakota
     Tribe, No. 42, of Frankfort.
     Mr. Covely is a man of fine character and high social standing
     in the community, popular among his neighbors and fellow
     citizens.  For a number of years he has been an active member of
     the German Reformed church, of which his wife is also a member,
     and she is esteemed by her many friends as a lady of
     intelligence and piety.  The family left the farm in 1912 and
     moved to a pleasant and modernly appointed residence in
     Mulberry, and our subject and wife are here pending their
     declining years in quiet and comfort, surrounded by every
     convenience, and their pleasant home is known to the many
     friends of the family as a place of hospitality and good cheer.
Source: Pages 794 - 795 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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COX, Lincoln
      Among the representative agriculturists and public-spirited men
      of Clinton county, who, while advancing their only interests,
      have not neglected their duty to the community at large, is
      Lincoln Cox, the honored subject of this sketch.  He possesses
      many fine traits of character which are inherited from his
      father, who was one of the hardy pioneers of this county and a
      veteran of the Civil war.  Mr. Cox is one of the best known
      farmers and business men of this community, and together with
      his large material reward, makes it appropriate that we should
      give the details of his worthy life in these few pages.  It is
      regrettable that more scope is not afforded for a treatment of
      this man.
      Lincoln Cox was born February 7, 1858, in Sugar Creek township,
      Clinton county, and was the son of Walter E. and Milly
      (ALEXANDER) COX.  The father was a native of Kentucky, and
      moved to Clinton county in 1846 when a boy, and here he has
      followed farming all of his life.  He was Republican.  He died
      in January, 1879.  The mother was also born in the "dark and
      bloody ground" country, and she still resides in Kempton, Ind.
      Ten children were born to the union, the eight living ones
      being: John P., Lincoln, Mary E., Storms, Elias, Laura J.,
      Carter, Almira, Flora, and Noah.
Our subject received a common school education in the schools of
Sugar Creek township, and then took up farming, which was destined to
be his life work.  He has also paid much attention to the breeding of
fine animals.  He possesses two hundred and sixty acres of excellent
soil, very tillable and well tiled, with the exception of fourteen
acres which is in woods and pasture.  The late improvements which dot
the estate are all by the hand of Mr. Cox himself.
      Mr.  COX was married to Louie LONGFELLOW on October 22, 1888.
      She was born in Tipton county, Ind., July 11, 1863, the
      daughter of William and Lucinda (ELIASON) LONGFELLOW. She
      received a common school education in her youth.  To the union
      of Mr. and Mrs. Cox there have been born four children:
      Ravmond, Walter, Cleo, and Inez (dec.).
      Politically, Mr. Cox is a Progressive.  For a term beginning in
      1900, he served as county commissioner, the period of his
      activities in this capacity extending over three years.
Source: Pages 580 - 581 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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TIMOTHY B. COX M. D., one of the oldest and most experienced
physicians of Frankfort, Clinton county, Ind., was born in Tompkins
county, N. Y., January 9, 1817, and is a son of David J. and Rosanna
(BAKE) COX.  David J. Cox was born in Monmouth county, N. J., and was
a son of James Cox, also a native of New Jersey, and a tanner by
trade.  James Cox was a hero of the Revolutionary war, and a very
prominent man.  He married Miss Deborah POTTS, to which union were
born thirteen children.  Mr. and Mrs. Cox were old-fashioned
Baptists.  James Cox was a brave man, endowed with more than ordinary
intelligence, and his political career was a most brilliant one.  His
son, David J., was reared in New York, served seven years as an
apprentice at cabinet -making, then, at the age of twenty-eight, came
west and followed his vocation in Preble and Butler counties, Ohio,
and elsewhere, until he reached middle age, when he entered the
ministry of the Methodist church, and had charge of the Shelbyville
circuit at the time of his death, August 20. 1837.  The marriage of
David J. Cox took place in New York, in 1814, to Miss Rosanna Bake,
daughter of Peter and Phoebe (TITUS) BAKE, of New Jersey, and to this
union were born the following children: William, Timothy B., M. D.,
Jonathan, Henry, M. D., Samuel, James, Phoebe Ann,,and Rosina.  The
mother of this family died May   I7, 1858.  Timothy B. COX was reared
in Decatur county, Ind., and remained on the home farm until
twenty-five years of age, receiving, in the meanwhile, his
preliminary education.  In 1842 he came to Clinton county, Ind.,
located in Kirklin, and, having graduated from the Medical college of
Ohio in 1853, began practice, which he followed with much success
until 1864, when he moved to Frankfort.  Here his medical career was
an uninterrupted series of successes and triumphs until 1890, when he
practically retired from the active duties of the profession,
although he feels the binding power of the Esculapian pledge, and
generously aids the lowly when called upon. The allopathic school of
medicine has been with him a life-long study, and his library is
complete and invaluable.  His abilities as a physician have been
recognized by an appreciative public, and his great services have
been remunerative.
     The marriage of Dr. Cox took place in Decatur county, Ind.,
     September 6, 1836, to Miss Mary Ann SHEPHERD, a native of
     Fayette county, Ky., and daughter of Dickey SHEPHERD, of the
     same state.  To this felicitous union seven children were born,
     one of whom yet survives -- Elizabeth, who resides in Kirklin.
     The mother of this family was called away in 1872, and her
     mortal remains lie interred at Kirklin.  Dr. Cox is the owner of
     350 acres of good land, most of which is arable, and also owns
     considerable real estate in town.  As will have been seen, the
     doctor was in active practice over half a century, and during
     all that time has maintained a position at the "very head and
     front" of his profession, and many articles from his pen have
     added to the fund of medical knowlege.
Source: Pages 903 - 904.     A Portrait And Biographical Record of
Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind., ... Containing Biographical
Sketches of Many Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with
Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States,
and Biographies of the Governors of Indiana. Published 1895 by A.W.
Bowen & Co. in Chicago.
Claybaugh. Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis,
Indiana
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CRULL, William J.
      There is a great satisfaction to us, the younger generation, to
      know that our father, uncles, cousins, or any relation,
      enlisted in the armies that were formed in 1861 to expunge
      false aristocracy and slavery from the southern states. Just as
      the veterans of the Civil war boasted of the deeds their
      fathers accomplished in the Revolution or the War of 1812, just
      so will their sons boast of their fathers' services in the
      Rebellion, in reeking prisons, smoky battlefields, and restless
      field hospitals.  It is a gratification to write of the subject
      of this biography, for he was one of the rank and file that
      suffered through the four years in the early sixties.
      William J. Crull was born in Scioto county, O., September 16,
      1836, the son of John H. and Sally (SQUIRES) CRULL.  John Crull
      was a native of Ohio, and he remained there all of his life.
      Nine children completed his family, three of whom still
      survive.
      William Crull spent the pleasant days of his youth in the
      common schools of the county of his birth, and afterward
      utilized the training in imparting the same knowledge to others
      as a teacher.  He ceased the pedagogic life soon, however, and
      entered the mercantile business, in which he remained until the
      southern states seceded.
      On May 1, 1861, Mr.  Crull enlisted in Company F. One Hundred
      and Fortieth Ohio National Guard.  The regiment was placed in
      the Army of West Virginia, under the command of General Crooks.
      Crull made an honorable and notable record while serving for
      the Federal cause, and in September, 1864, he was mustered out
      at Galipolis, 0. During the course of the four years' conflict,
      Mr.  Crull made his mark by clever and careful work in guard
      and scout duty, both probably the most hazardous undertakings
      in military science.
      Mr. Crull came to this county in February, 1880, and took up
      agriculture work. He continued successfully in this until he
      decided to retire in 1900.  Frankfort was chosen by Mr Crull as
      a residence, and there he resides happily at this date.
      In May, 1878, Mr. Crull married Emma D. ALLEN, early settlers
      of this county who came from Ohio in 1834to go into the farming
      and stock raising business. Both of her parents are now dead.
      Two children have been born to William Crull and wife. Fenton
      A. and William J.
      During his life, Crull has not cared to enter into public life,
      and so has held no public offices. He is loyal to the
      Republican party, however, in more ways than one, and always
      does his share of the work of the Grand Army of the Republic,
      to which organization he is intensely devoted.
Source: Pages 455 - 456. History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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W.  J. CRULL, JR.
     This is a time of progress and development.  Old methods are
     being revised and old or previously accepted facts are being
     examined or questioned as never before.  "Every man to his own
     business" no longer means that the knowledge of others is to be
     ignored by the successful business man or successful farmer.
     The successful business man, whether he be agriculturist or
     merchant knows more of the business in which he is engaged than
     any outsider can know; but this is no longer interpreted to mean
     that the successful business man may not learn many useful and
     profitable facts and principles from the outsider who has made a
     thorough study of a large number of business establishments and
     their methods.
     One of the successful young farmers and stock men of Washington
     township, Clinton county, who is quick to adopt a new idea, if
     it be practicable, no matter where it is obtained, is W.  J.
     Crull, Jr. System seems to be the watchword on his farm, and
     consequently everything runs smoothly.
     Mr. Crull was born in this township and county on November 5,
     1886. He is a son of W.  J. Crull, Sr., a prominent and
     well-to-do retired farmer and business man and a veteran of the
     Civil war.  He resides in an attractive home in the city of
     Frankfort, and is one of the most substantial citizens and large
     tax payers of the county.  He owns two well improved and
     valuable farms in the western part of Washington township,
     aggregating four hundred and sixty-five acres, of a productive
     land as the township affords.  The elder Crull was born in Ohio
     some seventy years ago, coming from a sterling old Buckeye
     family, noted for its industry and honesty.  He was reared and
     educated in his native state, coming to Clinton county when a
     young man and here soon got well established through his good
     management.  He married Emma D. Allen, daughter of Moses ALLEN,
     also a fine old family.
     To W. J. Crull, Sr., and wife two children were born,  F. Allen
     and W. J., Jr.
     W. J. Crull, Sr., is a strong Republican, and has been more or
     less influential in local party affairs in past years.  He is a
     member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
     The immediate subject of this review was reared on the home
     place in this county and he was taught to work and to handle
     live stock when a boy.  He obtained a good education in the
     common and high schools.
On March 4, 1908, he married Mamie Harshman, who was born, reared and
educated in Clinton county.  She is a daughter of Edward HARSHMAN, a
sketch of whom appears on another page in this work.  The union of
our subject and wife has resulted in the birth of one child, Emma
Lucille.
     Young Crull has charge of his father's large farm and he is
     making a pronounced success in the management of the same,
     carrying on general farming and stock raising on a large scale,
     feeding annually large numbers of cattle and hogs for the
     market.  He has a beautiful rural home and everything about the
     place denotes thrift and good taste.  He is a young man of
     pleasing address and is well liked by all who know him, and,
     judging from his past excellent record as a business man he
     gives every promise of eventually ranking among the leading
     argriculturists and stock men of the county.
Source: Pages 467 - 468 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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CRUM, John H.
     To be a native of the Old Dominion, the "mother of presidents"
     has always been deemed an honor and every Viginian (sic) is
     ready to make known the fact that he first opened his eyes to
     her fair skies. He takes great pride in his family tree. And
     this is not strange for that great state has been the cradle of
     the nation from its early settlement. It has produced scores of
     the nations greatest men. Presidents, statesmen, generals and
     literary men. Her sons and daughters have been noted for their
     chivalry, their gallantry, and their genuine culture from the
     first, and she is a state of almost unbounded resources as well
     as one of our most picturesque from a physical standpoint.
     One of these worthy sons is John H. Crum, well known farmer of
     Warren township, Clinton county, who is a scion of an excellent
     old Southern family. He was born in Roanoke county, Virginia,
     March 24, 1859. He is a son of William M. and Elizabeth (KROPFF)
     CRUM. The father was born April 9, 1833, in Franklin county,
     Virginia, and he died August 28, 1913.  The mother was born
     March 23, 1836, also in Virginia, and her death occurred on
     December 9, 1886. William M. Crum subsequently married Catherine
     Crum, also a native of Virginia. She is still living. These
     parents grew to maturity in their native state, were educated
     and married there, and there Mr. Crum learned the carpenter's
     trade which he followed in connection with farming through his
     active life. His family consisted of twelve children, ten of
     whom are still living, namely: Mrs. Lucy J. SHEETS, Martha E.
     SHEETS, John H., of this sketch; Christopher J., Silas W.,
     Wilbert Calvin, Winfield W., Minnie E., Emma F., and Andrew A.
     John H. Crum grew to manhood on the home farm in his native
     state, and there he received a public school education.  He
     remained there until 1866 when he moved to Missouri, remaining
     there a year, then returned to Putnam county, and in 1874, came
     to Clinton county, locating in Warren township.  In 1877, he
     went to Kansas where he remained until August, 1880, when he
     came back to Warren township, Clinton county, and here he has
     been engaged continuously in farming and stock raising.  He owns
     one hundred and sixty acres of well improved and productive
     land, eighteen acres of which is in woods. He made his own
     improvements and has a good home. He makes a specialty of
     Shorthorn cattle, Duroc, Hampshire and Poland-China hogs and
     general purpose horses.
     Mr. Crum married on December 17, 1885, Elizabeth J. Sheets, who
     was born March 1, 1866, in Warren township, Clinton county and
     here she grew to womanhood and received a common school
     education.  She is a daughter of Jacob and Delilah (ALBORN)
     SHEETS, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work.
     The death of Mrs. Crum occurred on October 21, 1907, after a
     helpful and happy married life of twenty-two years.
     To Mr. And Mrs. Crum twelve children were born, namely: Francis
     Earl, June 26, 1886; Clarence R., December 10, 1888; Charles D.,
     December 17, 1890; Walter W., November 1, 1892; Jacob M., May
     26, 1894; John R., November 30, 1896; Nancy May, December 29,
     1897; Artie F., September 27, 1899; Clifton D., September 23,
     1900; Chalmer J., January 25, 1902; Neva O., June 21, 1904; and
     William H., October 15, 1907.
     Fraternally, Mr. Crum is a member of the Masonic order at Beard.
     Religiously, he is a member of the Methodist Protestant church,
     and politically, he is a Democrat. At the present time he is
     township assessor. He has also served as justice of the peace
     and as constable. As a public servant he has discharged his
     duties most faithfully and to the eminent satisfaction of the
     people.
Source: Pages 616 - 617 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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CUE,  I. M.
       Among the farmers of Clinton county, Isaiah Marion Cue has
       been one of the most prosperous and intelligent.  It may be
       said that he was born to the high calling of agricultural
       pursuits.  His grandfather, William Cue, tilled the soil in
       Ohio, and his father, Lewis Cue, farmed in Indiana.  But the
       subject of this sketch, Isaiah M. Cue, was not bounded in his
       ambition by the horizon of the farm.  He gave his attention to
       local politics, and in time became one of the most astute
       politicians of Clinton county.
 In recognition of his merit and special adaptability, Isaiah M.  Cue
 was honored by his fellow citizens in 1910 with election to the
 office of county clerk.  He polled the full strength of the
 Democratic party, and owing to his peculiar fitness for the office
 was given quite generous support by the members of other parties.
 This confidence time has proved was not misplaced, as Mr. Cue is
 easily one of the most faithful and efficient incumbents that the
 county clerk's office has ever had.  He is thoroughly modern and
 up-to-date in his methods, and from his term will date a new era in
 despatching (sic) the county's business.  He is one of the men
 identified with the progress of his county.
       Isaiah M. Cue was born November 11, 1855, near Michigantown,
       Indiana, the son of Lewis and Sarah (FLOYD) CUE.  He is of the
       old Buckeye stock, his father having been born in Clinton
       county, Ohio, February 11, 1817, and his grandfather hailing
       from the same state.  This carries him back in direct
       genealogy to the early days of the government, the most
       momentous in many respects in all history.  A notable incident
       in the family history is that William Cue, the grandfather,
       lived to be eighty years of age and was then killed by the
       falling of a tree. When Lewis Cue, the father of Isaiah, was
       fifteen years of age, his mother died, and in 1853 he moved
       from Ohio to Clinton county, Iowa, and subsequently returned
       to Clinton county, Indiana, where he became a land owner and
       prosperous farmer, his death occurring in November, 1883.  He
       married Sarah FLOYD in Ohio, and five of eight children were
       born to them there.  The place of her birth was Clinton
       county, Ohio, and that of her death Clinton county, Indiana.
       She was born June 15, 1818.
       Isaiah M.  Cue was given a common school education and put to
       work on his father's farm.  Thus he was given, in the judgment
       of economists and philosophers, the best possible equipment
       for a satisfactory, and prosperous career.  And he has proved
       the soundness of such judgment.  On November 20, 1883, he was
       married to Loretta E. KING, who was born in Tipton county,
       Indiana, April 30, 1861.  Four children are the fruit of this
       union.  Carl, the eldest, is deputy clerk to his father; Oral
       is engaged at farm work, while Merle and Edith attend school.
       Mr. Cue is among the foremost Democratic politicians of
       Clinton county and is a stanch member of the Methodist church.
       In both political and religious circles he is by common
       consent a leader, and such is the character of his leadership
       that it inspires the utmost confidence in those who follow it.
       He is one of those representative men whose intellectual
       attainments and benefactions immortalize them in county and
       state history.
Source: Pages 413 & 414.  History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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CUNNINGHAM, Alexander G.
     The subject of our sketch, Alexander G. Cunningham, has made his
     name known in Johnson township by his agricultural and business
     accomplishments and he is regarded highly by all of his friends.
     Mr. Cunningham comes from a pioneer family who settled in
     Clinton county about the middle of the last century, and
     cultivated a farm where our subject now lives in contentment and
     material prosperity.
     Alexander G. Cunningham was born in Johnson township, Clinton
     county, in a log cabin on the farm where he now resides.  The
     date of his birth was December 11, 1853, and he was a son of
     William and Elizabeth (GOODNIGHT) CUNNINGHAM.  The father was a
     native of the Old Dominion, being born in Virginia in 1806.  He
     first moved to Ohio, living there until his marriage in 1850,
     and then coming to Clinton county.  He passed from this earth on
     April 1, 1864.  The mother was born in 1820 in the state of Ohio
     and died October 20, 1907.  The father and mother could not
     obtain a very liberal education in their youth.  The father
     followed farming all of his life, also the trade of the miller,
     and voted the Republican ticket.  Ten children were born of the
     union: Martha J. (dec.), Sarah C. (dec.), James A., William H.
     (dec.), Mary A., Elizabeth F., A. G., Louisa B. (dec.), J. W.
     (dec.), and S. W.
     Alexander Cunningham attended the common schools of Johnson
     township, this county, in his youth, and then took up
     agriculture, which he has followed continuously until the
     present time.  At one time he raised Poland-China hogs on an
     extensive scale, and now keeps a few of the Duroc variety, also
     a good breed of Jersey cattle.  His wife raises chickens.  Our
     subject counts a total of one hundred and fifty acres in his
     holdings, nearly all of which is tillable.  The land is well
     tiled, fenced, and has the latest improvements.  Politically,
     Mr. Cunningham is a Republican.
     On November 26, 1888, Mr. Cunningham was married to Mary E.
     HARGRAVE, who was born August 27, 1867, in Rockingham county,
     North Carolina, the daughter of Nathaniel and Matilda (POWERS)
     HARGRAVE.  Her father is a native of Virginia, born there
     December 1, 1837, and now lives among his children.  The mother
     was born in North Carolina in March, 1842, and died May 6, 1898.
     The father was a Democrat all of his life, and served four years
     in the Confederate army in the Civil war.  He was the father of
     eleven children: Susan, Mary, Thomas H., John F., Joseph M., Ida
     W. (dec.), Della M. (dec.), Dora B., Robert A. (dec.), Arlis M.
     (dec.), and Grover S.
     To our subject and wife there have been born eight children:
     Clarence, June 7, 1890, now in Purdue University: Frank W., a
     high school graduate and a student in agriculture at Purdue
     University, October 25, 1892, now at home; John G., April 27,
     1895; E. Grace, June 14, 1897; Roy A., August 21, 1899; Eugene
     H., October 7, 1901, died March 30, 1904; Harvey, December 11,
     2903, died March 26, 1904, and Glenn W., born June 16, 1907.
Source: Pages 744-745 History of Clinton County, Indiana.... With
Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical
Records of Many of the Old Families. By Hon. Joseph Claybaugh.
Published 1913 by A. W. Bowen & Company - Indianapolis, Indiana
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